Time to Improvement After Corticosteroid Injection for Trigger Finger.

corticosteroid injection stenosing tenosynovitis trigger trigger finger

Journal

Cureus
ISSN: 2168-8184
Titre abrégé: Cureus
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101596737

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Aug 2021
Historique:
accepted: 03 08 2021
entrez: 15 9 2021
pubmed: 16 9 2021
medline: 16 9 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Purpose Trigger finger is a commonly occurring hand condition that presents with symptoms of pain, clicking, locking, and catching of the finger. A common non-operative management option is corticosteroid injection. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the short-term patient response to corticosteroid injections for trigger finger.  Methods The patients of six fellowship-trained orthopedic hand surgeons who underwent a corticosteroid injection for trigger finger between June 2019 and October 2019 were invited to participate in this study. Patients were contacted by phone at one week, two weeks, and three weeks after the injection to complete a questionnaire regarding their pain and triggering symptoms. Medical records were also reviewed to collect basic demographic data. Results A total of 452 patients were included in the study. At the final follow-up, 82.4% of patients reported complete pain relief, 16.3% had partial relief, and 1.2% had no relief from their pain. For their triggering symptoms, 65.9% reported complete triggering relief, 30.4% had partial relief, and 3.5% had no triggering relief. It took an average of 6.6 days following injection for patients to experience complete pain relief, and an average of 8.1 days for patients to experience complete triggering relief. Conclusions This analysis found that most patients experience relief of pain and triggering at three weeks following corticosteroid injection. The majority of patients experienced some pain relief within the first week following corticosteroid injection, while improvement in triggering appeared to lag behind pain relief.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34522494
doi: 10.7759/cureus.16856
pmc: PMC8425109
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

e16856

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021, Seigerman et al.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Auteurs

Daniel Seigerman (D)

Orthopedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopedic Institute, New York City, USA.

Richard M McEntee (RM)

Orthopedic Surgery, University of Kansas, Kansas City, USA.
Division of Hand Surgery, Rothman Orthopedic Institute, Philadelphia, USA.

Jonas Matzon (J)

Division of Hand Surgery, Rothman Orthopedic Institute, Philadelphia, USA.

Kevin Lutsky (K)

Division of Hand Surgery, Rothman Orthopedic Institute, Philadelphia, USA.

Daniel Fletcher (D)

Division of Hand Surgery, Rothman Orthopedic Institute, Philadelphia, USA.

Michael Rivlin (M)

Division of Hand Surgery, Rothman Orthopedic Institute, Philadelphia, USA.

Mason Vialonga (M)

Orthopedics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson University, New Brunswick, USA.

Pedro Beredjiklian (P)

Division of Hand Surgery, Rothman Orthopedic Institute, Philadelphia, USA.

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